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Dementia Diagnosis
Diagnosis
The doctor's first step in diagnosing the cause of dementia is to look at the person's medical history and ask questions about when memory problems started and how quickly they got worse. This information, together with the person's age, can point toward a likely diagnosis. For example, if the person is elderly and has had consistently worsening memory and other problems for several years, a doctor may suspect Alzheimer's disease. If symptoms got worse rapidly, then Creutzfeldt-Jakob...
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